Quotation Explorer - 'Imprisoned'

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. - Graham Greene
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. - Robert Browning
You may think you will never get caught for your wrongdoing, but be assured that you will be imprisoned by your wrongdoing. - Debasish Mridha
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness. - John R. Dallas Jr.
Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned. - Tony Campolo
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. - Samuel Butler
If a religion asks one to kill another just because he or she follows not this ism, nor agrees with it; then, it's a hell-hole, worse than a prison. Run away, and far from it. As though your butt is on fire. And before you, yourself are imprisoned. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. - Wynonna Judd
It is one thing to be free; to be ignorant and free is to be imprisoned. - M.J. Croan
I stole you, among others, from the streets of God’s birthplace. I forced you to work as a slave. Imprisoned, mistreated and starved you and your companion. To top it off, I am in the process of selling your life to the highest bidder. Why would you trust me? - V.S. Carnes
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. - Henry David Thoreau
When you are imprisoned by the rules of conformity, it tames your imaginative capacity and steals your free thinking abilities. - Debasish Mridha
When I saw you, I saw tears of love in your eyes. It tamed my fire of love and imprisoned me in a cage of desires. - Debasish Mridha
The truth is, Everyone was taken before, What hurts is that, sometimes they are imprisoned with their past. - Bradley B. Dalina
Imprisoned peace sets the war free - Munia Khan
Miss Austen’s novels seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer is marriageableness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven? - Neil Gaiman
The trouble was, love was such a strong emotion. It made everything else unimportant. It grabbed you and imprisoned you in the moment."Deathsworn Arc 4: The Temple of the Mad God - Martyn Stanley
A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned in the very same prison by the employment contract that he has signed. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties.. - Munia Khan
The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities. - MacDonald Harris
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